Xbox UX Design

For the summer of 2016, I had the amazing opportunity to work with the Xbox UX Design team at Microsoft. I had a mix of individual and team projects, focusing both on inclusive design and expanding the Xbox ecosystem.

I worked extensively in both hardware and software fields, collaborating with fellow designers, researchers, engineers, managers, software developers, and directors to create new products currently progressing towards final development.

It's vague, I know. I really can't go into specifics cause of a pretty hefty NDA, but feel free to reach out and we can talk!

Bookstore Design

This class project is a concept design for an envisioned independent bookstore located on 85th and Greenwood in Seattle.

Many working people are unable to fit habitual reading into their busy lifestyles. My design concept for Analog Books is a short story coffee chop that provides an accessible, stress-free entry point into the literary world, designed to fit into any lifestyle.

Prompt: Design a bookstore for local client Analog Books, and create a comprehensive book of relevant process work.

Teammates: Individual Project

Motion Tracking Spotlight

Spotlights make for dynamic presentations and performances, but rely on operators for direction. Our idea was to build a motion tracking 360 degree spotlight that would track an infrared wearable device around a room.

This class was mainly a skill-building exercise, so our process work began straight from prototyping instead of full-on design research.

Proxi

Many modern music streaming services like Spotify and SoundCloud bypass localized communities in order to accommodate for global audiences. This trend towards individualized music tastes has fragmented localized music communities, keeping listeners from connecting with music enthusiasts in their area.

Proxi aims to reconnect you to your local music community through an interactive live feed of music being listened to in your area. Tap into the sounds of your city and connect with music listeners around you with Proxi.

Spectrum

This is a personal project of mine aimed at visualizing color choices in films. I created a Java-based Processing program that takes each frame of a given movie and compresses its average color into a single vertical line, creating a timeline of the spectrum of colors used throughout each movie.

I'm still coming up with more possible applications, but I'm currently using this program to research and analyze varying trends between movie color choices as I gather more data.

I'm also selling prints and framed artwork, so if you have any suggestions, hit me up! I have a few low-res examples shown here, but my full high-res gallery is over at ArtPal (link below).

Sense

Subtle facial expressions and emotional cues can often be difficult to pick up on in social settings. Sense glasses enable people with social disabilities to more easily distinguish facial expressions and learn social cues.

Through repeated use in therapeutic settings, wearers can develop stronger social intelligence and confidence. With consistent use over time, Sense empowers its users to feel at ease in social situations.

Bathroom Redesign

Work from a final group project aimed at designing a large-scale universal bathroom with increased efficiency and privacy. Lighted indicators on stall doors, along with a corresponding info panel, direct the crowd flow away from stalls and streamlines the process of finding an open stall.

My contribution is shown here. Along with ideation and research along the way, I fully built and rendered a 3D model of our design in Solidworks for our final presentation.

Modular Woodworking

A woodworking project involving the creation of a unique modular 3D object. The final product is an assembly of 6 identical pieces, and locks together firmly without any adhesive. I designed the model in Solidworks and constructed the final product with MDF composite wood and a whole bunch of power tools.

Prompt: Design a uniquely modular, patterned object using MDF wood and power tools.

Teammates: Individual Project

Knolling

A short project from an foundational industrial design class involving the complete disassembly and rearrangement of a mechanical object. I chose to take apart and photograph a rotary phone, seen below.

While a significant portion of this project was spent on mapping out the arrangement after disassembly, getting the lighting right was seriously difficult due to a wide variety of materials, reflective surfaces, and shadows.